This is our messy little eater, she loves to rub her hands all over her face and through her hair when she is finished eating. It's lovely!

Saturday we had a joint family birthday party for James and Kinley. Obviously Kinley LOVED the cake.

Aunt Jen and Grandad couldn't even figure out how to make the toys go!

The only present Kinley even attempted to unwrap - she was uninterested in everything but the cake.

She is beginning to love baby dolls. She rocks then, kisses them, tries to dress them it's so sweet.

Looking for Sophie (the dog)

James showing you his big basketball goal

James explaining to you how great the big basketball goal is

This is a video of Kinley eating the cake In foster care news, if you don't already know, we are supposed to bring Amari home Monday the 27th! He is 2 1/2 and African American. We can't wait to meet him! Keep us all in your prayers.

I think you old folks (no offense) who just look at the emails don't realize when I post videos and I always forget to say specifically that it is a video. So the last post had two adorable videos of Kinley. You have to go to the actual blog site to see them. www.jklmorris.blogspot.com

He said "look at me, I'm you"

Today, James woke up at 5am throwing up and didn't quit until around noon. Kinley woke up covered in poop with a few pieces thrown on the floor. Needless to say it was a stay at home day so I got the chance to catch Kinley being cute. The one on the right is her new favorite noise she and James always do it to each other and laugh.

No new pics this time but a couple of stories. James has been saying "chub it up" when he talks about liking to eat something. He says "I am gonna chub up shrimp at my birthday party" "Kinley just chubs it up" So weird, we have no idea where he got it but he is stuck on it. Kinley does the motions to itsy bitsy spider - it is to die for - I will try to get a video of it soon but we all know how that goes. Sunday James woke up from his nap crying hysterically. Josh went to him and asked what was wrong. He was sad becasue he didn't want us all to grow up and go to heaven because there were a lot of animals that he still wanted to be. (he likes to pretend he is a cat, dog, lion, bear, etc) Crazy that this is our almost 4yr olds biggest problem but it is better than a year ago when he wanted to walk in front of a car so that he could go to heaven and be with God. Providing the Lord makes it happen we will begin taking calls for foster children Monday the 27th...of July...yeah!?!? Which means we will probably get a kid that week. We will keep you posted but keep the prayers going! Sorry this is all one big paragraph, it doesn't obey when I hit enter - any bloggers have tips? I will welcome them.

We made goop with liquid starch and glue and called it monster snot - super fun - for a boy!

"Uh Uh I ate all the pudding" Kinley had dairy free pudding and loved it I have been forgetting to mention that she now says Uh Uh when she drops things. We went to the doctor for her one year check up. She was 21lbs 15oz and I can't remember how long she was. She was 50% height and weight and 90% head. She dances on command and sometimes swings her hips on command. She is such a cutie! This is James weighting down her new push toy so she doesn't take a nose dive.

We went to Duncan for the 4th of July. This is James and Pyro Uncle Jason lighting worms on fire. James was all about the fireworks but is definately old hammerdog jr. (For those of you who don't know Josh was nick named old hammerdog in college because he is so cautious) I did burn James with a sparkler spark. He threw a nice fit and has shown everyone his microscopic scar on his pinky toe and says "this is where my mommy burned me" He also got ash from the worms all over him and kept saying look I have rash all over me.

Sunday we took family pictures. Joe and Caren got us all coordinating clothes, didn't we look good!

This is our new cousin Kate - both of the kids love her. James baby talks to her and wants to hold her. Kinley says babababa and pats her.

Jennifer, Kinley, Me, James, Jason, Kate, Emily, Josh Will you believe that we got like five good pictures of the whole group and not one good one of the four of us!!!

See what I mean, see who the boss is!

We got all dressed up for the pictures and a couple of Joe and Caren's friends came by to see the kids. They asked "James are you better lookin than your dad?" He said "uhh, no, he has gel in his hair too!"

This a boring video of Kinley playing with her favorite part of the pool.

Had a meeting with our case worker today and we are officially finished with the process and ready to begin taking children. We have decided we need a couple of more weeks so we hope to start on the 27th - we'll see!?!?

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY! Kinley turned one on Friday! We spent the day with the Butters' and they made cupcakes for her. She thoroughly enjoyed them and the audience she had while devouring it. (The video is at the bottom of the page)

Friday night we had our neighbor Miss Betty over for dinner because she and Kinley share the same birthday. As you can tell by Kinley's face we had spaghetti for dinner and healthy banana cupcakes with no icing for desert (she will get a real cake in July at the family party!)

Her first present was from Miss Betty is was a new set of water play cups.

Saturday we went to Grand Lake with Josh's networking group. James loved the long boat ride we took but was a little nervous about swiming in a lake. Their favorite was the pool on the deck. It was just deep enough that Kinley could barely crawl - she kind of floated on top taking in a gallons of water- but she loved it. At one point I said I think God messed up and gave me fish instead of children!

She was excited that she didn't just drown on that last trek across the pool!

This is a shamelss plea to the grand parents that James is ready and begging for a motorized riding toy. He has decided that he would like the John Deer Gator that holds two kids but can still pull a load. He tried out these two single rider toys this weekend.

Someday maybe family pics will work out for us?! We went to Kansas City last weekend for Edward Jones Summer Regional. The meetings were really informative and encouraging for Josh. He won the second tier production award - YAY JOSH! We had a great time but told Gigi that she has plans the 3rd weekend in June for the next 10 yrs and that we will be getting a suite from now on

This was us cooling off in a fountain near The Plaza. We spent the day with Jason and Kati Sims. They are an Edward Jones couple who have an office in Broken Arrow. Josh and Jason are really close and encourage each other a lot.

The little seal was gift for James from us for being such a great boy. He had to always be quiet because it seemed like Kinley was always sleeping when he wanted to play in the room. One morning he and I spent two hours in the bathroom while Kinley napped and he never complained. Then we went shopping but forgot our wallets. He found this seal and just fell in love with it. We told him that he couldn't buy it and he just hugged it and put it back without a fuss. He was almost perfectly obedient and considerate of others the whole time. While he was sleeping I went back to the store and got if for him and let him wake up to it on his pillow. He was so excited because now Sammy (the big seal that looks exactly like it at home) has a baby. His name is Long John Silver but we call him Long John????

James is becoming very comfortable in water and is showing a lot of interest in learning to swim. Maybe next summer he'll get it down! Today we were the poor little family at the pool that took rubber coasters to dive for - but James loved it he pretended he was a dog and played fetch with them. Kinley also loved the water. The pool we were at had a beach entry and she would crawl through the water at a break neck pace until it was so deep she was flailing and drowning. I let her do it a couple of times thinking it would scare her from doing it again - nope. She is a stinker.